The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

Astronomers have found more evidence that there is a massive ripple traveling through the Milky Way. They have found evidence ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

The center of the Milky Way is super bright because it’s packed with a lot of stars and a supermassive black hole. That black ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new views of Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way’s most massive star nursery, ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is the latest in a series of stunning cosmic phenomena that should be visible in August across the United States.

Star formation is a fundamental physical process in our universe. Stars light up the cosmos, and give rise to planets, some ...

The nights surrounding Aug. 29 are a great time to spot the stars of the famous 'Summer Triangle' asterism, bisected by the glowing band of the Milky Way, with an early-setting crescent moon providing ...

You still may be able to spot the Milky Way's galactic center in the night sky across the US, but time is running out.

The star-forming region called Sagittarius B2 contains half of the galactic center's stars, yet only 10% of the gas.

The system, named UPM J1040−3551 AabBab, is located about 82 light-years from Earth. The two pairs—the brown dwarfs and the ...

If you could see it from the outside, the Milky Way would look like a majestic spiral of stars and glowing gas, rotating on its axis once every 200 million years or so like a gigantic, pinwheel ...